David Bachman, Saul Schleimer, and Henry Segerman
A zoom through a selection of "views" of the inside of finite-volume
hyperbolic three-manifolds. Each three-manifold contains a surface;
when a “light ray” leaves your eye it becomes darker when it crosses
the surface in the positive sense and lighter when it crosses in the
negative sense. The elaborate patterns come from the complicated
geometry and topology of the ambient three-manifold. The names of
the manifolds listed are as given in the SnapPea census. For more
details on the construction of these images, see our explanation
video at https://youtu.be/fhBPhie1Tm0. These images were generated
by https://henryseg.github.io/cohomology_fractals. In the web app
there, use the arrow and wasd keys to move, and choose the manifold
from the dropdown menu.